National Affairs: The Farmers' Friends

New York's pre-starched Governor Ave Harriman, who has never been
press-photographed milking a cow (and never will be if his luck holds),
planned to make his big pitch for farm support in another fashion at
the Democrats' Midwest farm conference in Des Moines over the weekend.
Harriman made the trip, his first speaking foray into the Midwest since
the political season opened, to outline a farm policy based on price
supports at 90% of paritya figure calculated to comfort farmers and
discomfit Adlai Stevenson.

Stevenson, worried by surplus farm production, had a hard time making up
his mind on the 90% parity...